Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Kremlin decided that lectures were not enough. All Russians in Germany were given strict non-fraternization orders. In future, they would live in special fenced-in compounds. The Red Army would thus "avoid unnecessary social relationships with foreigners...
...hundred years ago, 34 determined Lutherans fresh from Saxony met in a tiny Chicago church. There was one thing about this big new country that they could not abide-U.S. Lutherans were backsliding from the strict, exacting faith of their founder. To combat this trend, the 34 founded the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States...
Sole Exception. Until last fall, the canon (law) of the Episcopal Church had been clear, strict and uncompromising-stricter and less compromising in application than the Roman Catholic canon. No divorced person-with the sole exception of the innocent party in a divorce for adultery-could ever again be married in the Episcopal Church. If he or she chose to go through a form of marriage in some other church, that was a matter for his own conscience; the church would never recognize it as a true marriage...
...core of their dispute were some hard realities. After its collapse last fall, the market edged up in February, fell again in May, then started up again. The strict followers of the Dow theory contended that, because the industrial average had failed to go any lower in May than it had last fall, the downward trend might be changing...
Last week, after a slight sag, the industrials broke through again, rising to a new 1947 high of 186.85. Once more, the rails failed to follow the breakthrough. To the strict Dow theorists, it was still a bear market, though some were trying to weasel through a semantic loophole: the so-called bear market might be only a large scale reaction in the wartime bull market...